Hairpin



June 5, 192s. 1,672,234

G. w. SMITH. ET AL- YHAIR'PIN Filed neo. 15, 1927- atto/ung PatentedJune 5, A1928.

, UNITED STATES 1,672,234 PATENT oFFicE.'

I. GEORGINA W. SMITH AND GRAFTON C. CARROLL, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON,lAS- SIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO WILLIAM G. KENNEDY, 0F SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

HAIRPIN.

Application filed December-V15, 1927. Serial No. 240,131.

This invention relates to safety hair pins, and particularly to hairpins formed so that the points thereof will not injure the` skin of thewearer.

rhe objects `of the invention'y are to provlde a hair pin with foldedparallel leg members held normally close together at one end by a loopor eye hinge of the resilient material from which the pin is made, atthe opposite fend, and one of theleg members slightly shorter than theother and flared away from it to facilitate the ready insertion of thehair between, and the longer leg member pro.-

vided with a humpor bend'nearly oppoy site the flared end of the shorterone, the hump being curved to rest against the head of the wearer andhold away the tip end thereof, the latter being used for gathering upthe hair'between themembers.

A further object` is to provide a hair pin with folded leg members madefrom an endless strip of suitable resilient `material with out any sharpor -abrupt points, and each4 member being composed of a pair of legsfolded substantially parallel in shape of an elongated U, and heldnormally touching together near their closed sections bythe loops oreyes provided by the folded corners so that the hair pins will be heldsecurely in position on the head by the compression of the hair betweenfolded members.A l y A still further object is to provide a combinationof the safety hair pin with an elasticband inserted between the foldedleg members and retained by the eye loops for holding the pins inposition when halr is rolled about the pin for crimping and curl-,llVith theseA and other objects hereinafter set out, we haveillustrated our invention by the accompanying drawings, in which;

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of our hair pin in preferred form;

Figure 2 represents a top plan of our preferred form, and Figure Brepresents the same form incombination with a rubber band held in theeye loops of the pin.

Figure 4 represents a modified form. of pin with the hinged or connectedends of the members widened both in material and in space between; y

Figure 5 represents a modified form of pin with perpendicular sinuouslines, and

Figure 6 represents a modified form, with sents a top plan of a modifiedform of pin with single legs provided with the safety lhump shown inFigure 1.

Like numerals on the different figuresrepresent like parts. 1 shows theupper members and 2 the lower members with an eye loop 'or hinge 3whereby the two upper and two lower members are held normally compressedtoward each other,vbut separated by a slight space 4 except beyond apoint near their extended ends as at 5. The

pins are preferably made from some resilicnt material which may beeither fiat or other form, but all from one piece of mate-I rial eitherby being stamped from sheetlU metal or of lwire with both ends welded together, as this formation leaves no sharp or abrupt points which oftenprove injurious on ordinary hair pins. As shown by the drawings, the twoupper members are folded parallel with two lower, and both separated at6 or at the hinge end of the pin, but in use or operation the pins areinserted in the hair from the horizontally closed ends, so that thedesired amount of hair may be held between the two upper and lowermembers so v by the tension of the spring hinge or eyeV 3. In order toprovide for easily inserting the pin close to the scalp and at the sametime to-hold the inserting end 7 normally off from the scalp or facewhen the pin is in place, We provide a plurality of bends near thetip 7-of the'lower member 2, shown as a downward bend `8 and an upward bend9,

` then an outward horizontal tip 7 thus leaving a curved edge orhump 10to rest against the face or scalp of the user. The closed tip 1l, of theupper member l, is also bent Aupward, then curved down and back toconform with the upper surface adjoining of the lower member 2, and thisupturned tip 11, aids in the'insertion of hair between the upper 1 andlower members 2. The closed tip 7 of lower members extends outward andbeyond the extremity of the closed end 11 ofthe upper members, and soprovides a means Y for pickin face or sca p easily. And in order to makethe pin still more comfortable for use of the wearer, we preferablyconstruct the members 1 and 2 in aA long curved line or arc 12 upward inthe center as shown in Figure 1. I

In using the pin in combination for curling or crimping the hair, anelastic band 13 up the hair from against thea-,-

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is inserted through the eyes 3 and between the members l and 2,l and thein thenrinserted into the hair with the desired'amount shown as 14between the members, and the pinand enclosed hair rolled in the ordinarymanner and the band then stretched over` the top ofthe hair and slippedbeneath the extended tip 7 of the members 2 as shown in Figure 3.

In cases where the hair of the user is very thin, and hair pins arelikely to fall from desired positions easily, it issometimes desirableto use a pin shaped as shown in Figure 4, with the shanks of the membersl and .2 nearest the eye loop made heavier than the y loops act asabrace upward from the 'lower eye loop when on one sidel of the head.

Sinuous` linesmay also be given to thev corresponding members, eitherhorizontally or perpendicularly, as shown in Figures 5. and 6, whichvalsol aid in holding the pins in,v

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The specially formed and positioned bends 8, 9, and l0, and tip`s'7 maybe adapt-b ed to pins formed with onlyv two single parallel legs as seenin Figure .7 so as to pro- .Vide for the ready placing ofthe pins in thehair, and for preventing the tips 7 from impinging against the skin ofthe user, andfwe l reserve the right to make various other modilicationsin the construction of our pins, without departing from the spirit ofour invention.

Having described our invention, we claim: l. A' hair pin with parallelleg members one over the other, and connected and held near together bya resilient eye loop at one end, and the opposite ends of the legs ofdifferent lengths, the upper leg shorter than the lower and bent upwardatan an le to form a guide for the insertion of han` be-l tween theends, the tip -end of thelower leg extending outwardv on substantiallythe same plane as the Shanks of the legs, with a l bend downward in thelower 'leg to form a. hump beneath the same near the tip thereof, tohold the said tip normally7 skin ofthe wearer ofthe pin.

2. A hair pin formed with two pairsv of' parallel leg members one pairover the other,

and formed of one endless strip of material, the upper members foldedover the lower members and normally held close` thereto by a resilienteye formed by the loop of the fold, the extended closed section of 'thelower legs being longer than the closed extended section of the upperlegs, .with a down-l ward hump in the lower legs near the otitwardextremity thereof to hold the extended tip away'from the headA of'thewearer, and the extremity of the upper leg flared away from the lowerleg to facilitate the spreading of the legs when the pin is applied overthe hair.

3. In combination, a lel legmembers folded one` over the. other andnormally held'close together by a resilient eye loop of the fold at oneend, the opposite end of the lower leg extending beyond the upper one,with a hump extending be neath the lower leg near the outer tip thereof,with an elastic band threaded through the eye loop.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures.

GEORGINA W. SMITH. GRAFTON C. CARROLL.

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